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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ia64-enablement patch
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To: davidm@hpl.hp.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
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David Mosberger wrote:
> The patch below makes qemu work on ia64 linux.  Most of the patch is
> straight-forward, but there are perhaps some controversial bits and
> pieces (in particular the linux-user/syscall.c changes need
> consideration).  I'm mostly throwing this out there to get some
> reactions.  If it looks generally OK, I can split it up into separate
> pieces (generic cleanups & bug fixes, syscall-cleanup, ia64-specific
> stuff).
> 
> I haven't done a huge amount of testing.  i386-softmmu/qemu boots the
> minimal linux.img fine and Mandrake/x86 seems to be booting too.
> i386-user/qemu runs basic x86 binaries such as "ls" and "nvi" fine,
> but more complex stuff fails possibly because of lack of futex.  I
> wasn't able to test any other target architectures for lack of images
> (the only non-x86 image I found was for PPC and for some reason
> ppc-softmmu/qemu didn't get built for me.
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> 	--david

I applied most of your patch, except in linux-user/syscall.c. You should 
make the minimum amount of changes in this file.

Fabrice.